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The Zyxel Encyclopedia help you easily realize the concepts and terminologies of security information. Search in the encyclopedia for application name or categories, you can view the application detail, description, and categories. Using the information to prioritize, throttle, and block certain application(s) to boost productivity and prevent bandwidth abuse.

Latest Version

1.0.0.20240718.0
  • Update Date
    2024-07-19 01:45:42
  • All Application
    4773
  • Added Application
  • Updated Application
  • Categories
    32
Added Application
  • Application
    Category
    Description
  • Wappa
    Web
    Wappa is a mobility and logistic platform. This plugin classifies the website traffic.
  • Sky Mavis
    Game
    Sky Mavis is a technology company specialized in blockchains and video games.
  • Axie Infinity
    Game
    Axie Infinity is an online video game developed by Sky Mavis.
  • BlaBlaCar
    Web
    BlaBlaCar is community-based carpooling and bus traveling platform.
  • Anyword
    Web
    Anyword is an artificial intelligence platform, using natural language processing to generate and optimize marketing text for websites, social media, email, and ads.
  • Sling TV
    Audio/Video
    Sling TV is a video streaming platform, a subsidiary of Dish Network and available in USA and Puerto Rico.
  • Personal AI
    Web
    Personal AI is an AI model that uses user’s data, facts, and opinions to create text descriptions.
  • EmailTree.AI
    Mail
    Emailtree AI is an AI-powered email management tool designed to help prioritize and organize emails effectively
  • Anthropic
    Web
    Anthropic is an AI company, the developer of Claude AI assistant.
  • Claude
    Web
    Claude is an AI assistant developed by Anthropic.
  • Wondershare
    Web
    Wondershare is a software company developing multimedia, utility, and business software solutions.
  • Filmora
    Web
    Wondershare Filmora, provided by Wondershare Technology, is a video editing software.
  • Lady Driver
    Web
    Lady driver is a transportation application for women and children. This plugin classifies the website traffic.
  • inDrive
    Web
    InDrive is a ride-hailing service platform. This plugin classifies the website and mobile applications browsing traffic.
  • Windows Update Delivery Optimization (WUDO)
    Peer to Peer
    Windows Update Delivery Optimization (WUDO) is a peer-to-peer protocol used by Microsoft to accelerate distribution of Windows Updates.
Updated Application
  • Application
    Category
    Description
  • WordPress.com
    Web
    WordPress is a popular blogging system. This plug-in classifies the usage of Wordpress.com blog hosting online service.
  • Pogo.com
    Web
    Pogo.com is a free online casual gaming website.
  • Deezer
    Web
    Deezer is a french music streaming service which can run in web browsers and mobile applications.
  • Fotolog.com
    Web
    fotolog.com is an online magazine.
  • LiveJournal.com
    Web
    LiveJournal is a social networking service founded in 1999 and bought by a Russian media company in 2007; today it is owned by Russian giant Rambler Media Group. This protocol plug-in classifies the http and ssl traffic to the host livejournal.com.
  • Qzone.qq.com
    Web
    Tencent social network.
  • Spotify
    Audio/Video
    Spotify is an application of musical streaming.
  • Windows Update
    Web
    Windows_update is the protocol used for windows system updates.
  • Google Analytics - Google Marketing Platform
    Web
    Google Analytics is the enterprise-class web analytics solution that gives you rich insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness.
  • iBackup.com
    File Server
    ibackup is an online file backup protocol.
  • FileHost
    Web
    File hosting and sharing website from Romania.
  • Pandora Radio
    Web
    Pandora is a customizable music streaming service popular in the United States.
  • QQMusic
    Peer to Peer
    QQMusic is a Chinese peer-to-peer file sharing software. Its purpose is to download/stream audio files.
  • TV4 Play
    Web
    TV4 Play is a video streaming website broadcasting content from the TV4 swedish TV channel.
  • Slingbox
    Audio/Video
    Slingbox is a streaming protocol over the Internet used to watch and control TV shows received from your home devices. Slingbox servers permanently offline November 9, 2022 but still supports other products that continue to use this technology.
  • Google Generic
    Web
    This protocol is a generic layer used as a base for all the services running on top of Google platforms.
  • CartoonNetwork
    Web
    Websites of an American TV channel for children.
  • Daily Mail
    Web
    Daily Mail is a famous daily news website, and dedicated mobile application, from UK.
  • IKEA.com
    Web
    Ikea is a Swedish company that designs home furniture.
  • Kaspersky.com
    Web
    Kaspersky Lab is a Russian multinational cybersecurity and anti-virus provider. This plugin classifies website traffic.
  • Sina Weibo
    Web
    Sina Weibo is a Chinese microblogging website.
  • Tribunnews.com
    Web
    Tribunnews.com is an indonesian news platform.
  • SoundCloud
    Audio/Video
    SoundCloud is an online audio distribution platform where users can upload, promote and share their sounds with others.
  • Amazon Web Services/Cloudfront CDN
    Web
    Amazon AWS is a cloud-computing platform offered by Amazon, that includes Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).
  • KakaoTalk
    Instant Messaging
    KakaoTalk is an instant messaging platform for mobile devices; users or group of users can send messages, share photos, videos and contact information. Audio flows are classified as RTP only.
  • Gmarket.co.kr
    Web
    Gmarket is Korean an E-commerce platform.
  • Gsshop.com
    Web
    GS Shop is Korean an E-commerce platform..
  • Tmall.com
    Web
    tmall.com is an e-commerce platform.
  • Alibaba.com
    Web
    Alibaba is one the major online business-to-business platform for small businesses.
  • Xinhuanet.com
    Web
    Xinhuanet.com is a Chinese news website.
  • Akamai Technologies CDN
    Web
    Akamai is a major content delivery network (CDN) and distributed services provider, including cloud, etc. This CDN is specialized in local content distribution, based on cache mechanisms.
  • Rakuten.co.jp
    Web
    Online market place for selling goods and auctions.
  • Chinanews.com
    Web
    Chinese news portal.
  • Duowan.com
    Web
    Chinese online game media.
  • Etao.com
    Web
    eTao is the most comprehensive shopping search engine in China in terms of product and merchant information.
  • Tencent.com
    Web
    Instant communications service provider in Asia, providing corporate and personal instant messaging, online entertainment and value-added services. Tencent Computer Systems Company, the owner of QQ and Wechat
  • Google Talk (incl. Hangouts and Allo and Duo)
    Instant Messaging
    This signature classifies part of the flows related to the Google IM and audio/video calls applications both for PC and mobile devices. The Google Meet, Google Hangouts, Google Allo, and Google Duo applications are partially classified by this signature. The RTP audio/video flows of Meet, Hangouts, and Duo are classified using DNS Caching and STUN metadata. [ gtalk is also known as google_hangouts, google_allo and google_duo.]
  • Microsoft Office 365
    Web
    Office 365 is a Microsoft on-line service, with pay-as-you-go subscription (monthly or annually), giving access to many Microsoft Office applications from the internet, as well as cloud storage, Skype communications, etc. It also gives free access to the on-line version of the most popular Office applications (Word, Excel, Powerpoint).
  • Sina Video
    Web
    Chinese on-line video streaming and VOD service.
  • CloudMe
    Web
    Free on-line file storage service.
  • Reddit.com
    Web
    Social news website.
  • DCinside.com
    Web
    Information portal ( www.dcinside.com )
  • Mendeley.com
    Web
    Sharing and annotating document web service. ( http://www.mendeley.com )
  • Orange.com
    Web
    French telecom operator website providing internet and telephone services as well as web and media portal services. This portal provides services to countries like Mauritius, Madagascar, Uganda, Jordan, Kenya, Poland, Ivory Coast, Tunisia, or Moldova.
  • ElPais.com
    Web
    Spanish news web portal, also accessed from Uruguay and Colombia.
  • MoreFreeCamSecrets.com
    Web
    Adult live webcam site
  • Opensooq.com
    Web
    Market place framework aimed to Arab countries
  • Hkgolden.com
    Web
    Game and electonics news portal based in Hong Kong
  • Indiatimes
    Web
    Indiatimes is one of the most popular Internet and mobile value-added services web portal in India. This plugin also manage The Times Of India website.
  • Kijiji.ca
    Web
    Canadian free local classifieds
  • Seznam.cz
    Web
    Czech internet web portal.
  • AliExpress.com
    Web
    Chinese ecommerce website
  • APA.az
    Web
    Azerbaijani news portal
  • Doisongphapluat.com
    Web
    Vietnamese news portal
  • Orf.at
    Web
    Austrian news portal
  • Telegrafi
    Web
    Albanian news and media portal
  • Digikala
    Web
    Digikala is an E-commerce platform.
  • Independent
    Web
    Irish news portal.
  • Zendesk
    Web
    Zendesk is a cloud-based customer service platform, that includes ticketing, self-service options, and customer support features.
  • Brightcove
    Web
    Brightcove is a provider of cloud services for video.
  • VTun (Virtual Tunnel)
    Web
    Software that creates virtual tunnels over TCP/IP networks.
  • OkCupid
    Web
    OkCupid is an online dating website. This plug-in both classifies browsing and file upload workflows.
  • FreeWheel
    Web
    FreeWheel provides ad management and monetization, a private marketplace for premium television inventory, and advisory services for video streaming industry.
  • Bancopopular
    Web
    Puertorican online banking website.
  • Mapy
    Web
    Czech republic localization website.
  • Tothemaonline
    Web
    Cypriote news portal.
  • Eksisozluk
    Web
    Turkish forum on various topics. Includes occasional video streaming.
  • Yemennow
    Web
    Yemeni news portal
  • Microsoft
    Web
    This signature classifies hosts owned by Microsoft.
  • Channel Myanmar
    Web
    Burmese movie download platform and web blog service.
  • Uber (formerly UberCab)
    Web
    Uber is an American online transportation network company which connects smartphone consumers looking for a trip with drivers.
  • Slack
    Web
    Slack is an online team collaboration tool, featuring both a web browser application and mobile apps.
  • Zoom
    Instant Messaging
    Zoom Video Conferencing, also referred to as Zoom by users, combines video conferencing, online meetings, and mobile collaboration into one platform.
  • Tori
    Web
    Classified ads website in Finland.
  • StackOverflow
    Web
    Stack Overflow is a website offering questions and answers on a wide range of topics concerning computer programming.
  • Tinder
    Web
    Online dating application.
  • Qatarairways
    Web
    Qatar Airways is the state-owned airline company of Qatar.
  • Clash of Clans
    Game
    Clash of Clans is a free-to-play mobile MMO strategy video game developed by Supercell.
  • Supercell
    Web
    Supercell is a video game developer and editor.
  • Bugsnag
    Web
    Bugsnag detects crashes and other errors in real-time from web and mobile applications.
  • Nintendo
    Web
    Japanese multinational video game company.
  • News24 Nepal
    Web
    Infotainment web site in Nepal.
  • Zhihu
    Web
    Famous chinese question-and-answer website.
  • New Tang Dynasty Television
    Web
    News webportal of a television broadcaster based in New York City.
  • Kahoot!
    Web
    Kahoot! is a free game-based learning platform.
  • Google Cloud Platform
    Web
    Google Cloud Platform is a suite of cloud computing services that runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its end-user products.
  • Microsoft teams
    Instant Messaging
    Microsoft Teams is the chat-based workspace in Office 365. Most of the application traffic is classified as skype or office365.
  • Demonware
    Game
    DemonWare is a software development company and a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, Inc.
  • Fortnite
    Game
    Fortnite is a game developed by Epic Games.
  • Jibe cloud
    Web
    Jibe Cloud is a platform implementing Rich Communication Services (RCS) distributed by google to telecom operators integrating RCS.
  • Unreal_engine
    Game
    unreal_engine is a video game engine developed by Epic Games.
  • Spring Tech VPN
    Tunneling
    This plugin classifies traffic relative to VPN applications distributed by SpringTech company (namely Guangzhou Quanyong Information Technology Company), like Hot VPN, Turbo VPN, VPN Robot, Snap VPN, VPN Master Pro, VPN Monster, VPN Master.
  • Arte TV
    Web
    Arte TV is a Franco-German television channel. This plugin classifies traffic generated by the website.
  • Call of Duty
    Game
    Call of duty (aka COD) is a video game First Personal Shooter (FPS) available on Xbox, PS4, Microsoft Windows and published by Activision. This plugin classifies the World War II edition.
  • ByteDance
    Web
    ByteDance is a Chinese company that publishes several applications including TikTok (aka Musically), BuzzVideo and Vigo Video. This plugin classifies traffic from web site.
  • TikTok (Musical.ly)
    Instant Messaging
    TikTok is a social network application acquired by ByteDance and previously known as Musical.ly. It allows its users to share live stream video content.
  • Discourse
    Web
    Discourse is an open source Internet forum and mailing list management software application.
  • Monday.com
    Web
    Monday.com is a collaboration solution for enterprise.
  • Wish
    Web
    Wish is an e-commerce website and application.
  • DICOM
    Middleware
    Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) is a standard protocol, and a file format, used by medicine and veterinary imaging devices. This plugin classify non-ciphered communications.
  • Singaporean National Service
    Web
    Ns.sg is the web portal for the National Service in Singapore. This plugin classifies the website traffic.
  • Signiant Media Shuttle
    File Transfer
    Media Shuttle is a cloud based file sharing solution from Signiant targeting high volume transfers. It have enterprise work flows management capabilities. This plugin classifies Signiant web site, MediaShuttle web interface, Signiant file transfer protocol.
  • Didi
    Web
    Didi is a shared transport application. This plugin add classification of traffic generated by Android and iOS platforms.
  • DAZN
    Audio/Video
    DAZN is a video streaming service for sports.
  • Trello
    Web
    Trello is list making application.
  • Rakuten TV
    Audio/Video
    Rakuten TV is a video-on-demand (VOD) streaming service. This plugin classifies traffic for Europe and Japan.
  • Rich Communication Services
    Web
    RCS is a communication protocol aiming at replacing SMS messages with more advanced features a text-message system that is richer, provides phonebook polling (for service discovery), and can transmit in-call multimedia. It is part of broader IP Multimedia Subsystem.
  • Quora
    Forum
    Quora is a question-and-answer platform.
  • Shopify
    Web
    Shopify is an online service to build e-commerce websites.
  • Uber Eats
    Web
    This plugin classifies uber flows that are specific to Uber Eats website and applications. Uber Eats shares the same infrastructure as Uber.
  • DoorDash
    Web
    Doordash is a food delivery service platform. This plugin classifies traffic generated on Chrome and iOS.
  • Amazon Alexa Assistant
    Thin Client
    Alexa is the Amazon virtual assistant.
  • WordReference.com
    Web
    WordReference.com is an online dictionaries, translator and word games. This plugin classifies Wordrefrence website and iOS application.
  • Call of Duty Mobile
    Game
    Call of Duty: Mobile is a free to play mobile video game. This plugin classifies only the traffic generated by the online playing.
  • The Walt Disney Company
    Web
    The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate. This plugin classifies website traffic.
  • WarnerMedia
    Web
    WarnerMedia is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate corporation. This plugin classifies website traffic.
  • HBO Max
    Audio/Video
    HBO Max is a video streaming platform developed by Warner Media. This plugin classifies website traffic.
  • National K Song
    Audio/Video
    National K Song is a karaoke application owned by Tencent. The international version is named WeSing.
  • Faceu
    Web
    Faceu is a camera application and photo/video editing application owned by ByteDance. This plugin classifies the Chinese version of the application.
  • NordVPN
    Tunneling
    NordVPN is a VPN service distributed by Nord Security.
  • FA Premier League
    Web
    FA Premier League is the the English Football Championship. This plugin classifies official website and applications of the Premier League browsing traffic.
  • CoinMarketCap
    Web
    CoinMarketCap is a price-tracking and exchange website for cryptocurrency assets.
  • VPN Super Unlimited Proxy
    Tunneling
    VPN Super Unlimited Proxy is an anonymizing VPN developed by Super Unlimited Inc.
  • ChatGPT
    Web
    ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI. This plugin classifies the ChatGPT web interface traffic.
  • Binance
    Web
    Binance is a cryptocurrency exchange platform. This plugin classifies the browsing traffic of the website and mobile applications.
Categories
  • Category
    Description
  • Antivirus
    Antivirus update
  • Application Service
    Background service
  • Audio/Video
    Application/Protocol used to transport audio or video content
  • Authentication
    Protocol used for authentification purposes
  • Behavioral
    Protocol classified by non-deterministic criteria based on statistical analysis of packet form and session behavior.
  • Compression
    Compression layers
  • Database
    Protocol used for database remote queries
  • Encrypted
    Encryption protocol
  • ERP
    Enterprise Resource Planning application
  • File Server
    File transfer protocol
  • File Transfer
    Protocol used for user-to-user file transfers via Instant-Messaging applications.
  • Forum
    Web forum
  • Game
    Gaming protocol
  • Instant Messaging
    Instant messaging application
  • Mail
    Email exchange protocol
  • Microsoft Office
    Microsoft office sub-protocol
  • Middleware
    Platform protocol for remote procedure calls
  • Network Management
    Protocol used for IT management
  • Network Service
    Low level network protocol
  • Peer to Peer
    Peer to peer application
  • Printer
    Printer commmunication protocol
  • Routing
    Network routing protocol
  • Security Service
    Workstation security application
  • Standard
    Basic layers defined by Qosmos
  • Telephony
    Telephony core network protocol
  • Terminal
    Remote terminal protocol
  • Thin Client
    Remote control protocol
  • Tunneling
    Tunneling protocol
  • Wap
    Mobile specific transport protocol
  • Web
    Generic web traffic
  • Webmail
    Web email application
  • Custom
    Custom Family